Gwollu is a small town and is the capital of Sissala West district, a district in the

Upper West Region The Upper West Region of Ghana is located in the north-western corner of Ghana and is bordered by Upper East Region to the east, Northern Region (Ghana), Northern Region to the south, and Burkina Faso to the west and north. The Upper West regional ...

of north

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

.Sissala West District
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Hilla Limann Hilla Limann, (12 December 1934 – 23 January 1998) was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician who served as the eighth president of Ghana from 1979 to 1981. He previously served as a diplomat in Lomé and in Geneva. Education Limann, whose origi ...

, a former Ghanaian president was born and raised here. The town contains several tourist attractions such as the tomb of Ghana's president Dr.

,Kasana Museum
/ref> a traditional bone setter's center and a slave defense wall.Ghana Museums and Monuments Board
/ref> The wall was built in the 19th century as a double circle by Gwollu Koro Limann as a defense against slave raiders.

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{{Coord, 10, 58, 52, N, 2, 13, 16, W, region:GH_type:city, display=title Populated places in the Upper West Region